{"id":230,"date":"2009-07-04T22:35:47","date_gmt":"2009-07-05T02:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/diannekargbaron.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/2009\/07\/26\/yoj09-27-art-nouveau-cab-bangle\/"},"modified":"2009-07-04T22:35:47","modified_gmt":"2009-07-05T02:35:47","slug":"yoj09-27-art-nouveau-cab-bangle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/diannekargbaron\/2009\/07\/04\/yoj09-27-art-nouveau-cab-bangle\/","title":{"rendered":"YOJ09-27 Art Nouveau Cab Bangle"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n $\"YOJ09-27$
\n<\/a>
\nArt Nouveau Cab Bangle<\/strong> (2009)
\nSterling silver, bloodstone
\nL 21.5 cm x W 2.5 cm
\nConstructed, cold joined<\/p>\n

Although it\u2019s supposed to be a calming stone, I\u2019ve always found bloodstone to have a kind of overpowering \u201cin-your-face\u201d energy that\u2019s difficult to deal with.\u00a0 For the last few weeks, though, I\u2019ve been wearing it while working on my tutorials, and it\u2019s been helpful for keeping my energy levels up and focused.\u00a0 I love the red spotting on this cab, and the slight yellow cloud overlaying the green.\u00a0 This was part of a group of cabs I bought when The Nautilus closed 10 years ago.\u00a0 The Nautilus was *the* place in Toronto to buy rockhounding and lapidary supplies.\u00a0 Located in the far, far east of the city, I remember it taking an obscenely long time to get there on city transit from where I lived in Little India.\u00a0 But what a treasure trove!\u00a0 The owner, Roy MacLeod, was a passionate rockhound and filled his store with all the bits and bobs needed to work with and admire rocks.\u00a0 Sadly, Roy didn\u2019t live to see the millennium, and the closing of his store left a void that still hasn\u2019t been filled.<\/p>\n

In designing the Level II course for Haliburton, I was thinking about what skills would be most useful for the students to learn.\u00a0 In Level I, they learn the basics:\u00a0 working with single wires, developing dexterity with tools, etc.\u00a0 There are very few multi-wire projects.\u00a0 In Level II all but two of the projects are multi-wire pieces, and the students have to deal with doing steps early on that don\u2019t actually come into full use until much later in the construction. Wire control becomes very important.<\/p>\n

One of the things Level II focuses on is settings:\u00a0 half of the projects deal with some form of stone setting.<\/p>\n

I think this is by far the most complex of the projects I\u2019ll be teaching.\u00a0 Hopefully by the time we get to this point in the course, the students will have enough confidence to tackle it.\u00a0 If not, it\u2019s easily adapted to something simpler.\u00a0 I\u2019ll let them decide how energetic they want to be.<\/p>\n

This tutorial will be available for purchase and download off my website after I get back from Haliburton.\u00a0 I\u2019ll post the link when it\u2019s up, along with more photos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"